This was a slow week for tech news – Probably the most significant development was the decision by the US FCC to regulate Internet services in a limited sense as a utility and to enforce net neutrality. Ultimately this is a political decision which will pit the well monied carriers and large Internet companies (some […]

This was a very slow week for tech news – News was dominated by rumors – which developed into speculation and then into “fact” Apple was going to start manufacturing cars. Why the world’s largest company, which operates a business model involving subcontracting, would want to enter a low margin, capital intensive business is probably […]

OpenText (TSX:OTC) today announced that a San Francisco Federal Court jury found that both Box Inc. and Carahsoft Technology Corp infringed on its patents. The court awarded the Waterloo-based company a settlement of less than $5-million. “We are pleased the jury has vindicated Open Text’s position that the three file synchronization/edit patents were both infringed […]

This was a very slow week for tech news – indeed it was a struggle to find enough articles this week, let alone find good ones. There was no theme and really nothing of significance happened in technology. Nonetheless, we managed to find a number of articles covering batteries, smartphone market share, science, and medicine. […]

The big technology news of the week was associated with moves by the FCC to foster competition in broadband services. I believe most of the coverage makes the mistake of assuming policy will become law, which is unlikely in a sector so carefully controlled by lobbyists. Other than that we have a good mix of […]

This has been a very slow week for tech news as much of it was dominated by companies such as Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon reporting financial results. There were a number of interesting articles about self driving cars and some interesting scientific developments, but no really exciting (or amusing) stories. Germany Set to Open Up […]

Right now, a large swath of the Northeastern United States is preparing for what is being described as a “Crippling, ‘potentially historic” blizzard. Some are saying the weather event could rival the Great Blizzard of 1888, which dumped between 50 to 150 centimetres of snow on New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Others think […]

Analysts from Euro Pacific Canada revealed their top picks for 2015 recently, and innovation was a major theme. Of the firm’s eight top picks, six came from the innovation sectors. The firm has graciously allowed us to share them with the readers of Cantech Letter. Noting that the TSX was weighed on heavily by the […]

This has been a good week for tech news. The CEO of Blackberry embarrassed himself with an absurd letter to the FCC, there was a fair bit of noise on Bitcoin, none of which was particularly positive, idiots made stupid investments (including a Bitcoin investment, making a twofer) and no less than two groups announced […]

This has been a reasonably good week for tech news, however, no real theme emerged. A major auto show meant there were a fair number of cars related stories (EVs and self-driving in particular). The “anonymity” of Bitcoin has been unmasked as an illusion as the first Bitcoin related trial started. Finally – and most […]